Thomas-Grady County GaArchives Military Records.....Miller, Mason Covington November 3 1879
Civilwar - Pension Co. E, 10th Battn. Ga. Inf.
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Confederate Pension Application
State of Georgia
Thomas County
Personally came James B. Miller, William A. Miller and Joseph H. Miller who 
being duly sworn, depose and say they are aquainted with Mason C. Miller and 
know that he lost a leg in the military service during the late war; that said 
leg was amputated below the knee; that he is a bona fide citizen of this State, 
and we are well satisfied that the facts stated by him in the above affidavit 
are true.

James B. Miller
William A. Miler
Joseph H. Miller

Sworn to and subscribed before me this the third day of November 1879.
Jos. S. Merrill, Ordinary.



State of Georgia
Thomas County
I, Joseph S. Merrill, Ordinary of Thomas County, do certify that I am well 
aquainted with Mason C. Miller, an applicant for an artificial leg, and am well 
satisfied that the facts stated by him in the foregoing affidavit are true, and 
that I am well aquainted with James B. Miller, William A. Miller and Joseph H. 
Miller the citizens who make their affidavit, that they are respectable 
citizens of this county, and that the facts stated by them are true.

Given under my hand and official seal, this the third day of November 1879.
Jos. S. Merrill, Ordinary.


State of Georgia
Thomas County
Personally appeared before me Mason C. Miller of the county of Thomas, State of 
Georgia, who, being duly sworn, deposes and says that he was on the 20th day of 
September, 1879, a bona fide resident of this State; that he enlisted in the 
militar service of the Confederate States, or of this State, as a Private 
Soldier in Company E, 10th Battalion of Georgia Volunteers, that while engaged 
in such military service, to wit: at the battle or engagement of Reams Station 
in the State of Virginia on the twenty-third day of June in the year 1864, he 
was wounded in the right foot and that the same was amputated five inches above 
the ankle joint; that he has not received the payment allowed him for such limb 
under an Act entitled an Act to carry into effect the last clause of Paragraph 
1, Section 1, Article 7 of the Constitution of 1877, approved September 20th, 
1879; that he has supplied himself with an artificial leg; he prefers to supply 
himself with an artificial leg.

Mason C. Miller

Sworn to and subscribed before me this the third day of November, 1879.
Jos. S. Merrill, Ordinary.


Additional Comments:
Mason Covington Miller had previously served in Capt. Jos. L. Dunham's Company 
of the Milton Light Artillery of Florida from March 10 through May 14, 1862. He 
enlisted Aug. 1, 1862, at Macon into Co.E, "Granberry Guards," 10th Ga. Inf. 
Battn. and fought in engagements at the Wilderness, Spotsylvania, North Anna, 
Cold Harbor, Jerusalem Plank Road and on the Weldon Railroad where he received 
his wound.  He received his pension as a resident of Cairo, Ga., until his 
death in 1903.

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